Handbook of Logic : A Concise Body of Logical Doctrine, Including Modern Additions; With Numerous Practical Exercises
Contents: General groundwork: 1. Sphere of logical science. 2. The primary laws of thought. I. The doctrine of concepts: 3. Intuitional and conceptual knowledge: the formation of concepts. 4. The marks of concepts. 5. The quantity of concepts. 6. The relation of concepts. 7. The quality of concepts. 8. The definition and division of concepts. 9. General theory of sciences considered as knowledge by concepts, historical: realism, nominalism, conceptualism. II. The Doctrine of judgments: 10. Definition and analysis of the judgment. 11. The categories and the predicables. 12. Quantity, quality, relation, and modality of judgments. 13. The quantification of the predicate. 14. Logical analysis of propositions. III. The doctrine of immediate inference: 15. Opposition. 16. Conversion. 17. Infinitation. IV. The doctrine of mediate inference, or syllogism: 18. The syllogism: Its nature, analysis and laws. 19. Figure and mood of the syllogism: reduction. 20. The conditional syllogism. abbreviated and complex syllogisms. 21. Fallacies. 22. Thomsonian and Hamiltonian systems. 23. The Boole-Jevons logic. V. Induction and method: 24. Induction. 25. Method. Exercises: i. On the concept. ii. On the judgment. iii. On immediate inference. iv. On the syllogism.
"This treatise presents an orderly, accurate, and intelligible presentation of the science. The handbook includes carefully selected illustrative examples wherever necessary, together with the practical problems proposed to the students for solution.
This treatise probably presents a more complete account of recent logical investigations and advances than any other one book, which is quite apparent from the success the book has achieved since its publication. This is now the fourth edition of the book apart from several printings in several countries.
It is thought that decided advantages will be discovered in the arrangement of the matter by those who have occasion to carefully analyse the contents in the class-room." (jacket)
